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Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell price to $16,000

The AI buildout's memory shortage keeps hitting every tier of hardware — this time it is the workstation GPU on your desk, not the data center. Nvidia quietly raised its flagship Blackwell card to $16,000, and a new report shows the human cost behind robot training data in India. Nvidia has doubled the price of its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU to $16,000 on its US Marketplace, up from $13,250 in June — the card that started pre-orders below $8,000 last year now lists at 87% above its

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Lenovo posts record quarter as AI revenue hits $9.3B

Lenovo's fiscal first quarter produced the strongest results in the company's history, and the composition of the numbers shows AI has stopped being a story the PC giant tells and become a line item that moves the entire business. Lenovo reported record fiscal Q1 revenue of $26.9 billion, up 43% year-on-year — its highest quarterly growth in five years — while AI-related revenue climbed 60% to $9.3 billion, now 35% of the company's total. Adjusted net income rose 176% to $1.1 billion, the first

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Pony.ai's fourth-gen driverless heavy truck enters mass production

China's autonomous-driving leader is taking its Robotaxi playbook to freight, with the fourth-generation driverless heavy truck now rolling off the production line and a concrete fleet target for the next three years. Pony.ai's fourth-generation L4 autonomous electric heavy truck has entered mass production, with the company aiming to deploy 500 to 1,000 of the driverless rigs across China within two to three years. The first Gen-4 Robotruck model has already rolled off the line, and the compa

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Legora seeks $10B+ valuation, doubling in four months

The legal-AI money race just escalated: Swedish startup Legora is reportedly raising at a valuation above $10 billion, and a new Berkeley benchmark argues the industry is measuring machine learning itself all wrong. Swedish legal-AI startup Legora is seeking fresh funding at a valuation above $10 billion — roughly double the $5.6 billion it commanded just four months ago, according to the Financial Times. The company, founded in Stockholm in 2023 and formerly known as Leya, builds a collaborati

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Honor launches Robot Phone, the first smartphone with a robotic body

Honor has made the most literal bet yet on embodied AI: a smartphone with a motorized body, a system-level agent inside, and cinema-grade optics bolted on. It is a category-creating product launch — and the strongest signal yet that phone makers think the next upgrade cycle belongs to hardware that moves, not just software that talks. Honor unveiled the Robot Phone at a global launch event in Guangzhou on August 12, calling it the world's first robot phone and the flagship of its push into "aug

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Anthropic in talks to buy Decart AI for $6B

Anthropic is closing in on its largest acquisition ever, and a Hong Kong-listed speech-AI firm is pushing medical imaging models further down the clinical path. Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart AI for about $6 billion — what would be its largest acquisition yet — according to people familiar with the matter. The three-year-old Israeli startup helps AI developers squeeze more performance out of a wide range of chips and builds generative-video "world models" that can modify live video feeds i

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Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop seeks $1B at $10B valuation

The startup from Google's most famous engineer, announced barely a week ago, now carries a price tag that puts it in the same league as the model labs — and the money is betting on a different game entirely. Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop is in talks to raise $1 billion at a roughly $10 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter told Business Insider — one of the largest early-stage rounds ever for a company that publicly introduced itself barely a week ago. The departing Google chief scien

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Apple eyes nine-figure publisher deals to bring news to Siri AI

Apple is shopping for journalism again — but this time it isn't buying training data, it's buying a news feed. The company is in talks with publishers over multiyear content deals that would deliver current news and information through Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple unveiled at WWDC in June. Apple is discussing multiyear content deals with publishers to feed Siri AI current news and information, with a potential nine-figure budget, according to people familiar with the matter speaking to

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Fermi names nuclear veteran Lee McIntire as CEO

Two stories from the AI buildout's two most contested frontiers landed Wednesday: the power side and the data side. Fermi, the company behind the nuclear-powered Project Matador campus in Texas, ended its three-month CEO search by hiring a veteran of the nuclear industry, and publishers gained a new weapon in the fight against AI scrapers — a font that poisons training data while staying perfectly readable to humans. Fermi, the AI data center developer behind the nuclear-powered Project Matador

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Silicon Data raises $30.5M to price the GPU futures market

The AI buildout's financial layer is taking shape: the firm tapped to set the reference price for CME Group's planned GPU futures market just closed a $30.5 million Series A. Silicon Data, the New York startup building independent pricing and performance benchmarks for AI compute, announced a $30.5 million initial close of its Series A led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic and Wintermute also participating. The round is

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Cisco sees AI infrastructure revenue nearly doubling to $7.5B

The AI buildout keeps printing money for the companies selling its plumbing — and its appetite for training data just met its first organized resistance at the bookstore counter. Cisco said hyperscalers placed $9.3 billion in AI infrastructure orders in fiscal 2026, and it expects AI infrastructure revenue to nearly double to $7.5 billion this fiscal year. The networking giant beat estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter — $1.22 adjusted earnings per share on $17.25 billion in revenue — and guid

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Cerebras beats and raises outlook — stock plunges 12% anyway

Chip earnings split the day's AI news: Cerebras beat and raised, then watched investors head for the exits — while the money behind the compute buildout quietly got itself a benchmark layer. Cerebras reported second-quarter core revenue of $210 million, ahead of the $194 million it had guided to, raised its full-year outlook to $880–890 million — and still saw its stock plunge about 12 percent in extended trading. In the chipmaker's second earnings report since its May IPO, the market reaction

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